Good morning, The New York Times. We solved today's crossword for you.

The needle often knows before we do. But this was management’s choice. We’ll see you at 1 p.m. for our picket and rally with @NYGuild, @NewsGuild and CWAUnion!

Jimmy Carter and Eubie Blake. "Jazz was not accepted at the beginning, I believe, because of racism," he told the NYT in 1978. He was a jazz fan since childhood and when in the Navy, frequented clubs in Greenwich Village. Rest easy.

🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Justin Jones UNANIMOUSLY REAPPOINTED BY Metro Nashville COUNCIL

It’s easy to be numb to mass violence right now. This Jenna Russell piece helped me grapple with it in a deeper way nytimes.com/2023/04/15/us/…

Nashville, unless I’m mistaken you can hop outside and hear Phoebe Bridgers warming up at Nissan Stadium rn

Spent the morning reading this. Incredible reporting with many unsettling implications.

Some personal news: I love listening to Bradford Cox sing

"Nearly one-third of the Braves’ major-league roster is on the NL All-Star team." Watch them every game and (yes biased but) somehow feel we could've sent even more. theathletic.com/4661504/2023/0…

Since its meteoric rise in the early aughts, emo music has been alive and well in Music City. Today, we'll go backstage with some of Nashville's emo stars and the folks supporting them. What's emo? We'll get to that! wpln.org/post/episodes/… Tune in at noon on 90.3FM or WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio.

Did you know that lawmakers can introduce legislation on ways to make Tennesseans safer at any point during the special session next week? Did you also know that Tennessee is consistently in the top 10 states in the rate of women killed by men?propublica.org/article/how-te…

To celebrate our 30th anniversary, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. Today, contributing writer Ryan Burleson gets jazzed about #Karate (numerogroup): magnetmagazine.com/2023/08/12/mag…

Just yesterday I was reading Philip Sherburne and Cj's writing on Lou Reed and Eno, respectively, thinking goddamn this site's still got it. Still brave, still thoughtful. Conde folks are tragically undervaluing the impact and influence P4K has outside mere clicks.

Other writers in P4K who altered my hearing forever dating back to like '01 or something Ryan Dombal Nitsuh Abebe Lindsay Zoladz Clover Hope @Marcissist Jeremy D. Larson Jeremy Gordon liz pelly jenn pelly Jill Mapes Marc Hogan Max Blau (maxblau.bsky.social) mina tavakoli Amanda Petrusich evan minsker (see-saw.fun). Ty.

i still can't believe pitchfork let me write a longform review of a fucking DC Talk album, bunch of legends

Big hail core developing near and north of Leipers Fork, shelter guitars and muscular horses. / 1117 AM

*types ‘chat,’ to add new Chat Pile, is thrilled to find who arrives next in line*